Publisher's blurb:
Voidnauts is a tabletop role-playing game about the scrappy crew of a space frigate getting into and out of trouble in a galaxy full of danger. Each player’s character takes on a critical ship role (e.g., pilot, gunner, engineer, etc.), making each of them absolutely essential to the crew’s overall success. This game is engineered to be a hybrid of board game and role-playing game mechanics, where scenes of combat, evasion, intrigue, and starship drama are played in a structured format which thrusts players into a narrative pressure cooker that will require considerable teamwork to survive.
Voidnauts is also a game about relationships. Between moments of acute stress and danger are long stretches of quiet, nagging boredom as the crew’s frigate makes the weeks-long haul between star systems. These scenes of “ship time” gamify crew relationships in a way that not only leads to organic interpersonal drama between characters, but also provides players with a powerful resource they can tap into during the crew’s most harrowing of trials. What happens inside the ship’s airlock influences what happens outside of it, and vice versa.
Lastly, Voidnauts is a lightweight, low preparation, and modular game, permitting gamemasters to mix, match, and modify the playsheets they want to use to run their sessions and build out compelling and tension-fueled scenes in a matter of seconds (yes, seconds). If your table wants to dive deeper or alter the setting to suit their interests, there are templates and tools to collaboratively build out entire galaxies and star systems in minutes.